Funding a College Education: Finding the Right School for Your Child and the Right Fit for Your Budget
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
State education leaders decided Friday to ask lawmakers for what they see as a realistic -- rather than overly ambitious -- education budget for next school year.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Dartmouth College Board of Trustees is asking the administration to cut $50 million a year from the college budget in each of the next two fiscal years.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | yesterday
As school budgets continue to shrink, district leaders are increasingly seeking federal aid to sustain and grow programs.
Maria's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The recent post on salary raises at the school district made me realize how little attention has been paid to the school district contract negotiations and how little we know about what kind of negotiations our elected Board of Education do on behalf of our community. Thanks to another blog, Mount Olive Views, I was able to find information on contracts and more. The blog gave a link to a newspaper...
Workers World news online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The school system in California was once considered a global model for what a public higher education system should look like. Now it is quickly being dismantled by a political system that values repression over education, prisons over schools. The statewide protests that started last spring, following the passage of severe cuts in the California state education budget, are continuing and growing.
Plumb and Square (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
It appears the only way that Governor Ritter can create a balanced budget is to charge the children. The latest barrage of insanity; cut the education budget, tax candy, soda, and online purchases. It appears that the Governor doesn't want young people to have any money. The current unemployment rate for teenagers is 27.6%. So if you are a teenager that actually has a job you are going to be charged...
FIRE (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
FIRE has been working hard to keep Torch readers up to date on the progress of our many cases this week. First and foremost is our case at Tarrant County College (TCC) in Texas, where a federal district court issued a temporary restraining order today prohibiting TCC from censoring an "empty holster" protest to be held next week. Finally, after being prevented from doing so for two years...
Leicester Politics (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Tonight Michael Portillo on This Week gave a view already made the point made by John Redwood in his excellent blog that the Quantitative Easing pump up of £25,000,000,000 is being put in place to make sure the Government does not run out of money ahead of a Spring election. What is becoming more certain is this form of funding for Government is not sustainable and whichever party runs the Country...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Montgomery County school system could be forced to pay millions of dollars in penalties under an opinion Wednesday by Maryland's attorney general that its county government had "artificially" satisfied a state law that sets a minimum funding level for education.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Congressman Tom Latham with post election analysis and issues. Cami Walker says giving is healthier than receiving... 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life. Rep Chris Rants wonders about "giving" cities grant money while chopping the education budgets of the same cities. [...]
The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Congratulations to governor-elect Chris Christie in New Jersey, as well as all of the other Bucks County Republicans who won: David Heckler for DA, Dan McLaughlin for Lower Makefield Supervisor, Mike Burns for District Judge, and – ugh! – Simon Campbell and Kathleen Zawacki for the Pennsbury School Board (the school budget will be slashed, [...]
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Alison Wolf is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London and is a visiting professorial fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her new monograph for the IEA, An Adult Approach to...
Random Musings (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Mostly good news for the students and schools in the EV, though the Fountain Hills results are a bit disappointing. Results courtesy the Maricopa County Recorder's Office, and current as of 9:58 p.m. - Mesa USD #4 , 100% of precincts reporting 23804 favoring 17444 opposing Fountain Hills USD #98 2179 favoring 2223 opposing Paradise Valley USD #69 19238 favoring 12362 opposing Scottsdale USD #48 18473...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
More than $4.7 million in federal stimulus aid so far has been funneled to schools in North Chicago , and state and federal officials say that money has saved the jobs of 473 teachers. Problem is, the district employs only 290 teachers. "That other number, I don't know where that came from," said Lauri Hakanen, superintendent of North Chicago Community Unit Schools District 187. The Obama...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Forget, if you're not already inclined to do so, the dizzying merry-go-round of billions of pounds circulating between the government and the banks they own. It is bad news – the equivalent of the schools budget being ploughed into keeping the financial system afloat (again).
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